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Teaching the Lawyers: Business Immigration to Hong Kong : A Practical Guide (March 21, 2014) – Course Materials For Your Use

March 21st, 2014

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 24 responses

Yours truly delivering Business Immigration to Hong Kong : A Practical Guide at the Chinese Club today.   I’ve been doing this about 15 years now. The course is accredited by the Law Society of Hong Kong as part of the Solicitors’ Continuing Professional Development programme. I always enjoy myself when I do this as I […]

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** Cheeky Plug For Video Cha Cha! **

March 14th, 2014

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Resource, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / No responses

Hey, if you’ve got an audience, you should use it occasionally, right? Thought you might  be interested in the other project we’re involved in. I have learned that recording your intellectual capital in this way creates an asset that just keeps on giving. Let me know if you’d like our team to do it for you too […]

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CPD Course: Business Immigration to Hong Kong – A Practical Guide (March 21, 2014) SOLD OUT

March 13th, 2014

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 2 responses

I’m really looking forward to delivering this programme as it’s been a while since the last one… The March 21, 2014 CPD programme where I teach the lawyers all the stuff I know about Hong Kong business immigration is all sold out. If you’ve missed out this time not to worry as an overflow programme […]

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Interview: Has Hong Kong’s Effort to Forge a Particular Social Fabric Through the Constructs of its Immigration Policy Been Successful Do You Think?

March 11th, 2014

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 7 responses

On June 6th, 2013 I was interviewed by five law students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong about my experiences practicing immigration here over the last 20 years. We covered a great deal of ground in the 90 minutes we spent together and over the next few weeks I will be posting the interview […]

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The Visa Geeza on RTHK Radio Three – February 2014

February 20th, 2014

Posted by / in Family Visas, Investment Visas, Musing / No responses

Freezing at RTHK today… Phil kicked us off with a listener question today (thanks Steve!) which raised the spectre of discrimination. We then went on to discuss Start Up businesses and the various initiatives in play assisting the start up scene in Hong Kong. You can listen to our complete discussion here. Phil can be found […]

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Hong Kong Visa Centre Refunds 200% Fee to Client Who’s Application Was Refused by the Hong Kong Immigration Department

February 7th, 2014

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Feature Article, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing / No responses

The inevitable finally occured… Today, my professional practice, the Hong Kong Visa Centre, honoured our 200% Fee Refund Guarantee to an investment visa applicant who’s case was refused by ImmD recently. This is the first time in the three years since we introduced this policy that we have had to honour our commitment and just […]

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Your Questions Answered

QOTW: How Can Same Sex Partners Establish Their Relationship Bona Fides to Secure a Hong Kong Prolonged Visitor Visa If They Have Never Been Able to Live Together Previously?

February 2nd, 2014

Posted by / in Family Visas, Your Question Answered / 2 responses

What do you do if you’ve been together seven years but geography has forced you to live apart… QUESTION OF THE WEEK I am not an expat. I am Chinese, born in Hong Kong. I have a same sex partner. We have been in a long distance relationship for 7 years.  She got denied entry […]

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Interview: Do You Think the Relatively Low Number of Foreigners Coming to Live and Work in Hong Kong is Due to it Being Hard to Get a Visa?

January 13th, 2014

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes / 12 responses

Coming to live and work in Hong Kong – on June 6th, 2013 I was interviewed by five law students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong about my experiences practicing immigration here over the last 20 years. We covered a great deal of ground in the 90 minutes we spent together and over the […]

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Relocating to Hong Kong For Work or Business – Session Q&A

January 6th, 2014

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 3 responses

On June 13 I was invited to address the 2013 Monaco Trade Delegation to Hong Kong & China on the question of visas to live and work in Hong Kong. The Delegation was hosted by my good friends at Rosemont Hong Kong and I covered in a total of 50 minutes the whole sweep of employment and investment based visas as well as […]

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The Year Ahead – 2014 & New Stuff On the Horizon For the Hong Kong Visa Geeza

January 3rd, 2014

Posted by / in Employment Visas, Family Visas, Investment Visas, Long Stay & PR, Musing, Refusals & Appeals, Special Programmes, Visitor Visas / 4 responses

Season’s Greetings from sunny Western Australia! You may have noticed that I have been very quiet these last 2 weeks. Truth is I needed a serious break as the last six months of 2013 were just hectic all told. The Hong Kong Visa Centre grew 100% last year (for the third year in a row), we opened Video […]

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